MastanKhan
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Hi Keysersoze----I am not a 'dude' if you were addressing me---thankyou.
You maybe trying to tell me about ramming whereas I am talking about a glancing blow. Submarines are not used for ramming other subs---most often there are glancing blows where the severity of damage depends upon the angle of approach of one boat in comparison to the other. A bigger boat on an incline angle going down, if hit from the top, let me rephrase it----gets a glancing blow from the top in the front, closer to the nose section, would be devastating to the bigger boat. First of all, it is taking a nose dive---secondly when hit from the top in the front section would give the impact extra leverage, change the angle of incline severely going downwards.
Just because of the size of these boats, the direction of impact continues for a long time. If a 100 ft long boat scrapes a 300 ft long boat, the impact would continue all along---it is not like two ballerinas dancing on the floor--touch and go--it is like two behemoths coming together---it takes them time to move away-----they are so big that won't be able to get out their way even if their life depended upon it. Am I lecturing an ex millitary man!!!! Sorry.
The fluid dynamics of impact under water are different than on ground. I don't know if the website link showed the angle and position of impact, but it is there on one of the sites.
You maybe trying to tell me about ramming whereas I am talking about a glancing blow. Submarines are not used for ramming other subs---most often there are glancing blows where the severity of damage depends upon the angle of approach of one boat in comparison to the other. A bigger boat on an incline angle going down, if hit from the top, let me rephrase it----gets a glancing blow from the top in the front, closer to the nose section, would be devastating to the bigger boat. First of all, it is taking a nose dive---secondly when hit from the top in the front section would give the impact extra leverage, change the angle of incline severely going downwards.
Just because of the size of these boats, the direction of impact continues for a long time. If a 100 ft long boat scrapes a 300 ft long boat, the impact would continue all along---it is not like two ballerinas dancing on the floor--touch and go--it is like two behemoths coming together---it takes them time to move away-----they are so big that won't be able to get out their way even if their life depended upon it. Am I lecturing an ex millitary man!!!! Sorry.
The fluid dynamics of impact under water are different than on ground. I don't know if the website link showed the angle and position of impact, but it is there on one of the sites.